If you had Easter egg hunts as a kid, what were they like?

I was kind of floored at the two “Easter egg hunts” that I got to be witness to, at two different houses over the weekend. They just literally threw dozens and dozens of plastic eggs all over the yard!

When I was a kid we used real eggs, and who ever did the hiding thought of the most devious, clever places to hide the eggs. We had a set amount of eggs each, and we had each one memorized. After the initial hunt, initiated by my parents (my father took special delight in finding clever places to hide eggs,) we kids took over and played for hours on our own. So much interaction, and laughing, teasing, groaning and moaning!
“You still haven’t found the purple and red one!”
Then we’d play, “Warm, warm, cold, cold,warm, warm WARM! AHHHHH!! YOU’RE BURNING UP!”

At the egg hunts put on by the city they do the same thing….and the parents will run out there and try to grab as many plastic eggs for their kids that they can, literally snatching them out from under toddler’s noses. It is gross.

WHAT is happening here?